CAIR-NJ to Offer Muslim Voices in American Politics Seminars
How can the Muslim community take leadership and ownership of issues that are important not just to our community but to all Americans? Come learn about different ways to help bring about political change.WHAT: MUSLIM VOICES IN AMERICAN POLITICSSPEAKER: Corey Saylor, CAIR’s National Legislative DirectorWHEN/WHERE:* Friday, November 16, 2007, 6:30 p.m., ICPC, 152 Derrom Ave., […]
CAIR-PA to Host Nationwide ‘Islamophobia Tour’ Event
(PHILADELPHIA, PA, 10/31/07) – On November 4, 2007, the Pennsylvania chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-PA) will host a seminar on the growing problem of Islamophobia and its effects on American Muslims, their families and institutions. The Philadelphia event will seek to explain the historical context of Islamophobia and provide resources for gaining […]
FL: Muslim Protester Spat on Outside Daniel Pipes Lecture
A young protester stood outside a crowded auditorium Tuesday night and watched a scowling older woman approach her. Sana Akhtar, a 23-year-old psychology and biology student at Florida Atlantic University, gripped a stack of fliers that decried Daniel Pipes, the controversial speaker scheduled to take the stage in 30 minutes. Like many of the 40 […]
NY: Spotlight on FBI in False Confession Case
This month, Abdallah Higazy managed to crawl from the landslide of forgotten history on a slow-motion journey toward the truth. Mr. Higazy, now 36, was briefly — and wrongly — known as a mysterious figure who fled a hotel room directly across Church Street from the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, […]
TX: US Needs to Start a Discussion with the Muslim World
As a carefree teenager working behind a fast-food register, I was excited to open my first account with $50. As I sat with a friend at the Richardson Mosque, a man came up and engaged us in conversation about a conflict thousands of miles away and explained how it was our responsibility to stand up […]
DC: AG Nominee Unsure if Waterboarding is Torture
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey told Senate Democrats yesterday that a kind of simulated drowning known as waterboarding is “repugnant to me,” but he said he does not know whether the interrogation tactic violates U.S. laws against torture. Mukasey’s uncertainty about the method’s legality has raised new questions about the success of his nomination. […]
CA: LAPD Launches Muslim ‘Community Mapping’ Initiative
Downing said the LAPD had launched a “community mapping” initiative to plot the locations of Muslim populations around Los Angeles and examine their histories, demographics and socioeconomic standing. The department hopes to identify communities susceptible to extremism and prevent violent ideologies from taking root, he said. (MORE)
MI: FBI Agent to Meet with Muslims Tonight
The head of the FBI Detroit office is scheduled to meet tonight with Muslims at a mosque in Warren. Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena will talk with local Muslim leaders about issues that concern them in a discussion at the Islamic Organization of North America, or Tanzeem Islami. The 7 p.m. meeting may include […]
MI: Ex-Prosecutor ‘Crossed Over the Line’
A federal prosecutor withheld crucial evidence from the defense in the first major terrorism case announced after the Sept. 11 terror attacks because he was consumed with winning a high-profile courtroom victory, Justice Department lawyers told a jury in closing arguments Tuesday at the trial here of their former colleague. The former Michigan prosecutor, Richard […]
TX: Islamic Groups Sue ‘Muslim Day’ Protester
Only 15 people protested Muslim Family Day at Six Flags Over Texas, but accusations that the event was held to spread anti-American hatred was enough to scare thousands of people away, said Jamal Qaddura, an organizer of the Oct. 14 event. “There are 150,000 Muslims in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and only 9,000 showed up,” […]